GTS Securities LLC
GTS Securities LLC was fined a total of $100,000 for routing erroneous orders to the market that were generated through the firm’s trading engine by some of the firm’s trading algorithms.
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Goldman Sachs & Co was fined a total of $512,500 due to its supervisory system was not reasonably designed to identify potentially manipulative trading activity.
TradeStation Securities
TradeStation Securities was fined $700,00 for failing to develop and implement reasonable escalation and tracking procedures for its anti-money laundering (AML) program.
Wilson-Davis & Co., Inc.
Wilson-Davis & Co., Inc. was fined a total of $1,100,000 for Regulation SHO and AML violations.
Interactive Brokers LLC
Interactive Brokers LLC was fined $3.5 million due to its reviews of customer execution quality failing to meet the reasonable diligence standard of FINRA Rule 5310 and the regular-and-rigorous review requirements of FINRA Rule 5310.09.
Elevation, LLC
Elevation, LLC was fined $75,000 for failing to establish and maintain a supervisory system, including WSPs, reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable federal securities laws and FINRA rules prohibiting fraudulent trading in equity securities.
M1, SoFi, SogoTrade
Four firms — M1 Finance LLC, Open to the Public Investing, Inc., SoFi Securities LLC, and SogoTrade, Inc. — were fined a combined $2.6 million, including over $1 million in restitution to retail customers enrolled in fully paid securities lending programs and fines of $1.6 million for the firms’ related supervisory and advertising violations.
Alterna Securities, Inc.
Alterna Securities, Inc. was fined $32,500 for failing to maintain a supervisory system, including WSPs, was not reasonably designed to surveil for potentially manipulative pre-arranged trades.
Puma Capital, LLC
Puma Capital was fined $100,000 in that, despite receiving a warning from FINRA, the firm had no policy or process to determine whether the intermarket sweep orders (ISOs) it routed were received and executed as intended by the venues to which it directed them.
Tradition Securities and Derivatives LLC
Tradition Securities and Derivatives LLC was fined $140,000 in that it failed to record transmission times and to include the correct exchange of execution on its order tickets.
BGC Financial, L.P.
BGC Financial, L.P. fined $200,000 for failing to establish and maintain a supervisory system reasonably designed to detect potential spoofing and layering in equity securities.
BofA Securities, Inc.
BofA Securities, Inc. was fined $24 million for engaging in more than 700 instances of spoofing through two former traders in U.S. Treasury secondary markets and related supervisory failures spanning more than six years.
Maxim Group LLC
Maxim Group LLC was fined $500,000 for failing to maintain and enforce written procedures, reasonably designed to achieve compliance with Section 5 of the Securities Act.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC was fined $6 million dollars for having submitted blue sheets to FINRA that inaccurately reported one or more of 39 separate types of transaction information.
Citadel Securities LLC
Citadel Securities was fined $7 million for incorrectly marking millions of orders over a 5-year period, inaccurately denoting that certain short sales were long sales and vice versa.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. fined $250,000 in that it issued inaccurate trade confirmations to customers in connection with its principal trading activity on its alternative trading system (ATS).
Electronic Transaction Clearing, Inc.
Electronic Transaction Clearing, Inc. fined $3 million dollars for failing to reasonably supervise for potentially manipulative trading.
Citadel Securities LLC
The SEC settled charges with Citadel Securities LLC for a $7 million penalty for violating a provision of Regulation SHO, the regulatory framework designed to address abusive short selling practices, which requires broker-dealers to mark sale orders as long, short, or short exempt.
Instinet, LLC
Instinet, LLC was fined a total of $450,000 for violating Rule 611(c) of Regulation National Market System (Regulation NMS) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and FINRA Rule 2010 by failing to take reasonable steps to establish that the intermarket sweep orders (ISOs) it routed to certain market centers met the requirements set forth in Exchange Act Rule 600(b)(31).